Author

Hindol Sengupta

Hindol Sengupta is an award-winning author of nine books. He is a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader and Editor-at-Large for Fortune India. He has been a Knight-Bagehot Fellow at Columbia University and Chevening Scholar at the University of Oxford.

For seventy years, the Himalayan state of Jammu and Kashmir has been divided between the warring South Asian neighbours India and Pakistan. Since both acquired nuclear weapons in 1998, the Line of Control which forms a truce line between…

When he first took his oath of office in May 2014, India's Narendra Modi innovated to invite all heads of state of SAARC (South Asian Association for Cooperation) to his inauguration ceremony. On the occasion of his second inauguration in…

The South Asian nuclear-armed neighbors are at war once again. This might sound dangerously like déjà vu to some but that would be unwise. The two countries are closer to nuclear holocaust than ever before, and the answer lies in…

Does India have a demographic dividend? That is, does it have many young people of working age who will boost its economy for years to come, or does it have a growing problem of an ageing population? Does it have a highly-skilled population…